Re: Feathered Dinosaur Specimen

["Tim Williams" <twilliams_alpha@hotmail.com>]

Mike Keesey wrote:

> It's too late to suggest names, but I think it should be called
> _Sinosaurornithoides pterygolestes_, in order to further the _Sinosaurus_/
> _Sinosauropteryx_/_Sinornithosaurus_/_Sinornis_/_Sinornithoides_/
> _Saurornithoides_/_Saurornitholestes_ confusion :)


Not to mention _Sinraptor_.

We'll have to wait to find out; Ji et al. refrained from giving this 
feathered theropod a new name.  NGMC 91 might be a young _Sinornithosaurus_, 
or it might not.  In any case, it's clearly dromaeosaurid, which is the main 
thing.


References

Qiang Ji, Mark A. Norell, Ke-Qin Gao, Shu-An Ji and Dong Ren (2001).  The 
distribution of integumentary structures in a feathered dinosaur.  _Nature_ 
410: 1084-1088.


Tim


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